Wynncraft Science: Damage Calculation Uses Floating Point

Basically, all the integers for enemy HP and player HP are actually floating point numbers behind the scenes.

Why? idrk

Damage values and health values are floored (rounded down) before they get displayed to the player.

Example: Here

Combat dummies started at full hp. Front dummy was hit by two war scream hits (2 and 1 damage), but lost 6 hp. Back combat dummy was hit by one war scream hit (2 damage), and lost 4 hp.

Wait a second.

Even if we assume the damages were 2.999 and 1.9999, that won't add up to more than 5 damage. The front dummy looks like it took at least 5 damage though (remember, health rounds down so it could be at 499994.9999 health.)

Fun fact: War scream has 25% air conversion! This means that my war scream is also doing 0-0.75 damage... which is rounded down to zero and never displayed.

I've done a bunch more experiments and observations (looking at natural hpr, and using a constant damage weapon to hit enemies but dealing different amounts of damage) and the TL;DR is:

- Health values are floating point (fractional numbers).
- Weapon base damage values are integers. (This interacts with spell conversion and powder effects in very strange ways, post coming soonTM)
- After weapon damage (and elemental spell conversion) is calculated, all numbers are floating, but when displayed get rounded down. This leads to weird artifacts such as above, where "invisible damage" happens.

cheers

P.S. if anyone wants to help test a wynndata alternative, pm me on forums or reply here, thx

 

Some Scooby-doo investigation going on here

 

Woog big spook

 

Yeah, since Minecraft stores health as floating point, and Wynncraft basically just repurposes entity health, it makes sense that this works the same way for Wynncraft mob health. Nice post.

 

can't wait. I'm God awful at maths but it's damn interesting and even more interesting when it has to do with video games